hard drive problem

by Richeh • 20 Feb 2008, 16:45 • Journals
I have two hard drives one with windows xp and the other with vista.

I' am currently on xp drive atm, I can access the vista drive from xp, (access files etc) but i cant get the vista drive to boot. Ive even taken the xp drive out and tried to boot with just the vista, and i get a boot error.

Is there anything i can do? Sep format the vista drive?
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pedro 20 Feb 2008, 16:58
You can get a program called WD diagnostics from the Western Digital website. That will tell you if your two hard-drives actually work.

If they both "PASS" the test, then they are working and it's a problem with your boot settings in your BIOS. If one fails, then it's broken and needs replaced.

They also have tools which tidy the drives, so it might be able to help your drive enough so that vista can boot.
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evan 20 Feb 2008, 17:14
Not seeing anything called 'WD diagnostic' :{
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pedro 20 Feb 2008, 17:22
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3
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evan 20 Feb 2008, 17:26
Firefox sucks, much appreciated!
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Deactivated6284 20 Feb 2008, 17:42
thought ur name said pedo for 1 sec :(
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Bitmap 20 Feb 2008, 18:17
Don't reveal his secret identity plx.
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evan 20 Feb 2008, 17:04
Is it a Samsung? I bought a new 500GB one just before christmas and have the same problem, except worse. Having to use the old 80GB (Samsung) one at the moment, thank god I've an external (Western Digital) as well to save most of my vitals.
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Deactivated6709 20 Feb 2008, 17:23
samsung is teh poor quality... WD Caviar ftw...
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HorRible 20 Feb 2008, 18:30
Afaik u can make a multiboot file(ini-file or smth) so it will ask what OS to boot on start-up...

Google for VistaBootPRO...
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